Dr. Akhilesh Bajaj

Professor

Management Information Systems

Akhilesh Bajaj is Professor and Chapman Endowed Chair of MIS, at the University of Tulsa. He received a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1989, an MBA from Cornell University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in MIS (minor in Computer Science) from the University of Arizona in 1997. Dr. Bajaj’s research deals with the construction and testing of tools and methodologies that facilitate the construction of large organizational systems, as well as studying the decision models of the actual consumers of these information systems. He has published articles in several academic journals such as Management Science, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, Journal of the Association of Information Systems and the Journal of Information Systems. He is on the editorial board of several journals in the MIS area. His research has been funded by the department of defense (DOD). He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on basic and advanced database systems, management of information systems, and enterprise wide systems.